Flight Pattern

Acclaimed Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite creates her first work for The Royal Ballet.

Most recent performance

There are currently no scheduled performances of Flight Pattern.
It was last on stage 16–24 March 2017 as part of the Spring 2016/17 season.

Background

Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite has been acclaimed as ‘one of the most talented and intriguing choreographers working today’ (New York Times). She danced with Ballet British Columbia and then with William Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt, before founding her own company Kidd Pivot in 2002. Pite’s work shows the influence of Forsythe’s groundbreaking style but heightened with a new lyricism and a recurrent interest in the role of narrative in dance. ‘Ultimately my interest in story has to do with connecting to people’, she told The Telegraph in 2014. ‘Everybody is looking for a story.’

Pite is perhaps best known in the UK for her work as an associate artist with Sadler’s Wells, which includes the multi-award-winning Polaris – a breathtakingly ambitious work for 64 dancers to music by Thomas Adès. In this new work for The Royal Ballet she creates a further large-scale ensemble work, to music from Górecki’s powerful ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’.

The disparate music grouped together as ‘minimalism’ has inspired numerous dance works, and is more diverse than might initially be imagined.

Thanks to

Generous philanthropic support from

Richard and Delia Baker and Sue Butcher

Schools' Matinee

The matinee performance on 21 March at 1pm is part of our regular Schools' Matinees programme. Tickets are only available to invited audience. Please note that only After the Rain and Flight Pattern will be performed.